Collin Condray, with 15 years of experience in web development and social media marketing, covers location-based services (LBS) and their advantages for businesses and users. The document discusses how users engage with LBS through check-ins, social platforms, and rewards while highlighting usage statistics and concerns such as privacy. It also outlines various LBS platforms like Facebook Places and Foursquare, and offers strategies for organizations to leverage these tools effectively.

1. BlueZooWebsites.com
Twitter.com/ccondray
1/26/2011

2. Collin Condray
 15 years experience in web
development and
programming
 Retail data analysis for multi-
billion dollar companies (3M
and Tyson)
 Social media marketing
 Agency experience with
Collective Bias and Saatchi X
 Local speaker at University of
Arkansas, JBU, & Webster
University
 Currently Director of
Technology at Blue Zoo
Websites

3. Introductions
 Who do you work for?
 What do you do?
 What is your experience
with social media or
location based services?
 What do you hope to get
out of today’s session?
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4. Please Ask Questions!
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5. Would you like to…
 Get more word of mouth
about your organization?
 Reward your best customers
and secure their loyalty?
 Let your strongest fans
become public
ambassadors?
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6. Would you like to…
 Have someone handing out
flyers on every corner 1000 ft
around your location?
 Get more traffic from search
engines?
 Have another way to
generate content on social
networks?
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7. Location Based Services (LBS)
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8. How do LBS work for visitors?
 Users “check in” to a location,
primarily using their smartphone’s
GPS.
 Customized messages about what
they’re doing can be sent to people
who check in
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9. How do LBS work for visitors?
 Location
 Items/Rewards
 Societies/Groups
 User generated content
 Reviews
 Pictures
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10. How do LBS work for visitors?
 Check in notifies all the
friends on the service
 Most connect to Twitter and
Facebook automatically
 Average Facebook user has 140
friends; they can be notified
for every check in.
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11. How do LBS work for owners?
 Locations claim their
location and manage
specials
 Manage local activity
through the LBS site
 Make sure you claim your
own organization to
prevent squatting
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12. How do LBS work for owners?
 Most LBS have widgets for
your website to allow cross
promotion
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13. Why are LBS important?
Users in billions
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Landline Television PCs Cell phones
Telephones
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14. Why are LBS important?
 Number of those using
LBS tripled between 2009
and 2010.
Source: eMarketer 14

15. Why are LBS important?
 Number of mobile social
network users is expected
to increase 27% this year.
 iPhone moving to
Verizon, growth of the
Android OS, and new
tablets will create more
demand.
Source: eMarketer 15

16. Why are LBS important?
 Make choices of where to go
based on other people’s
feedback.
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17. Who’s using LBS
 7% of adults who go online
with their mobile phone use
LBS
 8% of online adults ages 18-
29 use location-based
services
 10% of online Hispanics use
these services – significantly
more than online whites (3%)
or online blacks (5%).
 6% of online men use a LBS
vs. 3% of online women.
Source: Pew Internet Research Center 17

18. Who’s using LBS
 Among online adults,
62% use a social
networking site such as
Facebook. 6% of these
users use LBS.
 24% of online adults
make updates using
Twitter or another
service. Ten percent of
these status update site
users use a location-
based service, over twice
the rate of the general
online population.
Source: Pew Internet Research Center 18

19. Mobile phone users say they’d use
LBS
 Only 13% would not find
LBS useful in some
capacity.
Source: eMarketer 19

20. What the experts are saying
 “Go back three years ago.
Twitter was being used by the
same crowd that is playing
with Foursquare today…. But
I think this lame little
location game is going to be
bigger than Twitter.”
 Robert Scoble, @Scobleizer,
January, 2009
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21. LBS Concerns
 Privacy
 Which people can see
updates: everyone or just
friends?
 Same rules as status
updates
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22. LBS Concerns
 Anyone can leave a
message without your
permission. Need to be
aware of what your
customers are saying.
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23. LBS Concerns
 Lack of business adoption
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26. Facebook Places
 One of the newer services
 Large user base (500 million)
 Already built into the existing
Facebook app so visitors are
more likely to have it
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27. How are they social?
 Posted to your wall for
friends to see
 One of the few that is
not GPS based
 Friends can check you in
(even if you’re not there)
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28. Check In
 Click the Places option
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29. Friend activity
 Note nearby friends and
when they checked in
 Not required to actually
be there
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30. Check In
 Find local places
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31. Check In
 You can check in your
friends, and they can
check you in as well.
 Option to leave a
message or photo for your
wall to let other people
know what you’re doing
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32. Why should you use Facebook
Places?
 Multiple ways to offer deals
 Deals and donations are
offered by individual
businesses.
 Friend deals require tagging
a number of friends to share
savings.
 Loyalty deals require
multiple check-ins, similar
to a traditional punch card.
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34. Foursquare
 One of the original LBS so it
is well recognized
 Many more places mapped
out
 Second biggest user base (4
million) after Facebook
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35. Check In
 Shows what your friends are
doing
 Option to join them
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36. Check In
 Find your location.
 See if there are nearby
specials
 Not necessarily real names.
“Chez Smith” might be
someone’s house.
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37. Check In
 Tap through to nearby
specials
 Current mayor
 Tips about local places
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38. Check In
 View the special
 May require something
special to unlock
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39. Check In
 Leave your own message or
photo
 Share with friends within
Foursquare and on other
social media networks like
Facebook and Twitter
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40. Check In
 Encourages multiple logins
with social gaming
 Mayor, first stop bonuses
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41. Earn Badges
 Based on volume of use at
certain locations
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42. Leaderboard Competition
 See how your friends are doing
 Competition encourages more
check ins
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43. Why you should use Foursquare
 Size of user base
 Get a window cling or a
QR bar code to remind
users to check in
 Free to register your
location and offer deals
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44. Location Resources
 Mayor specials
 Frequency based specials after a certain number of
check ins
 Check-In offers
 Wildcard specials are always unlocked, but there is
some condition that an employee has to verify.
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45. Location Resources
 Provides analytics with
traffic, frequency, time of
day, and comments
 Start tracking user
activity immediately
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46. Case Study
 Foursquare is helping
promote tourism in Chicago.
 Unique badges
 Encourages new people to
visit certain places
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48. Gowalla
 One of the newer services
 Smaller user base (390,000
users)
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49. How are they social?
 Has gifting built into it.
Virtual souvenirs or icons
that can be traded with
friends or hidden for the
next visitor
 Encourage users to follow
Trips to visit multiple
places and stamp their
Gowalla Passport.
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50. Check In
 Shows what your friends are
doing
 Option to join them
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51. Check In
 Display nearby locations
 Locations are categorized as
restaurant (e.g. family,
American, Asian), bar,
convenience store, etc.
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52. Trips
 Multiple location check ins
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53. Pins
 For completing certain tasks
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54. Check In
 Location statistics
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55. Check In
 Leave your own message
 Share with friends within
Gowalla and on other social
media networks like
Facebook and Twitter
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56. Why should you use this service?
 Gowalla now supports
checking in on both
Facebook Places and
Foursquare in addition to
sharing with both Twitter
and Tumblr.
 Multiple location feature.
Good if you have more
than one physical
location or partners.
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57. Case Study
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59. Whrrl
 Relatively small user base
(350,000 users)
 Based around a story known as
a footstream.
 Others can contribute to a story
as well.
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60. How are they social?
 User generated societies. Some
societies are joined
automatically when a check in
occurs
 Shared reviews
 User comments within
Footstreams
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61. How are they social?
 Point based system with a
leaderboard
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62. Check In
 Check ins also include
recommendations from other
users at nearby places
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63. Check In
 User recommendations
accepted
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64. Check In
 Recommendations for the
next stop
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65. Check In
 Range of notifications
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66. User Generate Recommendations
 Can be positive or negative
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67. Check In
 Syndicate back through
Facebook and Twitter
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68. Win instant prizes
 Checking in gives you the
details of how to win the
prize
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69. User Generated Actions
 Get extra points by completing
tasks people who have been
there before have proposed
 You can also make
recommendations that will get
you points if other Whrrl users
complete them
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70. Society Participation
 Belonging to a society gets
you rewards.
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71. Multiple logins are encouraged
 More logins and earning more
points give you improved win
options
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72. Not every visit is a winner
 Encourage multiple visits.
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73. Case Study
 Win a chance for free gas a
Murphy Oil.
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74. Why should you use this service?
 Building a community
around shared
interests and events.
 Multiple reward
opportunities
 Good for
documenting events
such as concerts after
checking in.
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75. Other Services
 SCVNGR
 Yelp – local search and user
reviews
 Twitter
 Google Latitude
 Stickybits-Social barcodes
 Urbanspoon
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76. Group Buying
 Lets shoppers “gang
up” on a deal.
 Retailers get
guaranteed customers.
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78. Listen
 What are your customers
saying about you on
location based services?
 Check into your own
location.
 Is there anyone already
passionate about you?
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79. Engage
 POST
 People
 Objectives
 Strategy
 Technology
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80. People
 What are you customers
ready for? Do the
demographics match?
 Do you see a lot of people
at your location with
smartphones?
 How open to sharing are
they?
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81. Objectives
 What are your goals?
 Listening
 Get insights
 Talking/broadcasting
 Amplify existing
marketing initiative
 Supporting
 Embracing – integrate
your customers
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82. Strategy
 What change do you
want your customers to
make?
 Carry messages to
others
 Engage more with your
organization
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83. Incentives
 What would your users
consider a “wow” they must
share with their friends?
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84. Employee training
 Make sure employees:
 Remind visitors to check in.
 Understand how to redeem
special offers.
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85. Technology
 What LBS should you
use?
 Reach
 Storytelling
 Incentives
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86. Measure
 Number of check ins
 Key influencers, who’s
talking about you
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87. Measure
 What are they saying?
(wordcloud)
 Good vs. bad comments?
Are the number of good
comments going up?
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88. What can you do with the
measurements?
 Customer service
 “Geez, one bad employee can
really ruin your day!”
 Correct misinformation
 What is it that the community
has an interest in that is not
currently being discussed
online?
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89. Reacting to Measurements
• Generate awareness among
customers and other
community members about
your organization
• Increase employee awareness
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90. Reacting to Measurements
• Keep
content/interactions
helpful, fun, and
inspiring
• Increase impressions
from multiple sources on
a variety of platforms
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